In this paper a calibration method for on-board cameras used on the ARGO autonomous vehicle is presented. A number of markers have been placed on the vehicle’s hood, which is framed by the vision system. Thanks to the knowledge of the markers’ position it is possible to compute camera position and orientation with respect to the vehicle. Being based on fast computations, this procedure –of basi...

|New reactive behaviors that implement formations in multi-robot teams are presented and evaluated. The formation behaviors are integrated with other navigational behaviors to enable a robotic team to reach navigational goals, avoid hazards and simultaneously remain in formation. The behaviors are implemented in simulation, on robots in the laboratory and aboard DARPA's HMMWV-based Unmanned Gro...

The research aims to determine the didactic potential of cognitive visualisation in students’ learner autonomy development course foreign language learning. paper provides specific task options aimed at independent material order enhance their skills. Scientific novelty lies justifying a comprehensive theoretical manner usefulness means for learners’ autonomous activity skills education. As res...

This essay introduces a new featured section, to be published in Small Axe annually, that explores the critical vocabulary of field Caribbean studies.

This paper presents a sampling of research in design of engineering systems in the Department of Industrial and Enterprise Systems Engineering at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Recent activity in design principles for actively controlled and autonomous systems, normative decision based design theory and methodology, and bio-inspired compliant mechanisms and soft robotics is pre...

The non autonomous Cauchy problem i∂tu = −∂ 2 xxu+α(t)δ0u with ut=0 = u0 is considered in L(R) . The regularity assumptions for α are accurately analyzed and show that the general results for non autonomous linear evolution equations in Banach spaces are far from being optimal. In the mean time, this article shows an unexpected application of paraproduct techniques, initiated by J.M. Bony for n...

Abstract The present study aimed at discovering the practices and strategies autonomous EFL learners pursue in their endeavor to master English. It thus set out in the Iranian context, with 60 EFL learners, both autonomous and non-autonomous, as participants. The gathered data through a questionnaire and an interview were subjected to content and descriptive analysis. The results showed that bo...

Abstract The present study aimed at discovering the practices and strategies autonomous EFL learners pursue in their endeavor to master English. It thus set out in the Iranian context, with 60 EFL learners, both autonomous and non-autonomous, as participants. The gathered data through a questionnaire and an interview were subjected to content and descriptive analysis. The results showed that bo...